Pumpkin seeds are one of the most nutritious and easily roasted foods. If you can add pumpkin seeds to your diet, it will help you to lead a healthier life.
- If you want healthy long hair, add pumpkin seeds to your diet regularly
- Pumpkin seeds contain a high percentage of magnesium. It contains 74 milligrams, which completes 25% of your daily magnesium requirement
- Magnesium acts as an enzyme stimulant in your body and is also important for muscle survival. It also helps maintain a healthy brain
- Taking 100 mg of magnesium a day reduces your risk of developing diabetes by 25%. Therefore, pumpkin seeds can reduce your risk of diabetes
- The omega 3 and omega 6 antioxidants and fibre in pumpkin seeds are very good for your heart and liver
- Pumpkin seeds lower the level of cholesterol in your blood and reduce the risk of heart disease
- The tryptophan in pumpkin seeds relieves you from stress and if you are already suffering from depression, pumpkin seeds are very good for relieving it
- Lowers LDL cholesterol levels in the blood
- Prevents the formation of kidney stones
- Helps to get a good night's sleep
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According to all of those, there is a higher potential of marketing the pumpkin seeds locally and internationally. So far we have been eating pumpkin as a vegetable but in most countries pumpkin is grown on a large scale for seed purposes.
Some of the value-added products associated with pumpkin seeds
Pumpkin growers are currently facing severe difficulties due to the decline in the price of pumpkin in the Sri Lankan market. We are trying to show that it is necessary.
Many countries in the world have introduced different varieties for pumpkin cultivation for seeds and many machines have been developed to harvest and separate the seeds from those crops. Larger factories and factories built for pumpkin seed products are still found in some lands.
In order to uplift the economy of Sri Lanka, to transform the farmer into an agri-entrepreneur and to provide a solution to the economic crisis that may arise in the future, we need to get rid of the empty attitudes that we have in our heads and turn to create new ideas as Sri Lankan.
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